I was going to do a Batman post today, but I’ve got annoyed again, so you’ll have to wait. Specifically, I got annoyed by this , something that’s been going round on the internet for a few days. It calls itself The Periodic Table Of Irrational Nonsense, but it is itself nonsense at least as [...]
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Sorry for lack of actual content – proper posts tomorrow. For now, some links. First of all, I don’t plan to discuss Brown’s ‘gaffe’ today, where he was polite to a bigot to her face and then grumbled about her behind her back, without realising his mic was still on. It’s the kind of thing [...]
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Shame about Alex Chilton. One of the greats gone… Via Tez Burke, here’s a five-CD set of ‘toytown music’, that style of English baroque pop which combined piccolo trumpets and lyrics about toy soldiers and childhood. Follow the rapidshare links but also have a look at their notes. This contains all the usual suspects (The [...]
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Don’t worry, this isn’t only the third new-to-me book I read this year – between the last of these posts and this one I also read five other books I’d not read before (as well as usual rereads, comics etc) but I’m planning on submitting some writing to the series that they are connected to [...]
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This is a ‘beta’/proof version – the authors have yet to give feedback (and there’s one article where I had to cut a handful of words and the author may change that before the final print version), but it’s finally done. Click the image to read it.
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(Still a day behind with posts, will catch up soon – lots happening in personal life) Pillock wants to know how people would have dealt with rebooting Star Trek. (I’m almost certainly going to do this as part of Pop-Drama) Jon Blum almost convinces me that the Welsh Series has something going for it, while [...]
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